Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 183 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "(T.) v.v"

Sprengel, C.P.J. (1824), Systema Vegetabilium Edn. 17, 1: 278 [basionym]

basionym of: Aira rara (R.Br.) Spreng. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 133 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 624 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 221 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 34 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 63 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 144 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & McClay, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Eriachne. Flora of New South Wales 4: 561 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M. (30 June 1995), The genus Eriachne (Eriachneae, Poaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 8(3): 411, figs 26H, 22 (map) [secondary reference]

• Type: Queensland, Pt Curtis District, Shoalwater Bay; near Conical Pine Hil, 3.ix.1802, R.Brown (6261**, pro parte) (Holo, BM; iso, B, BR, CANB, E, K).

nomenclatural synonym: Aira rara (R.Br.) Spreng. legitimate

• Text: ** One of the two sheets of this collection in the BM includes seven specimes of E. rara and one specimen of E. ciliata.

Lazarides, M., Van den Borre, A. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Eriachne. Flora of Australia 44B: 152-153 APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Aira rara (R.Br.) Spreng. legitimate

• APC Dist.: Qld, NSW

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 262 (fig.) [secondary reference]

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